"Our Lord and Savior Barak Obama?!"

[jayinsat]

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Couldn't figure out how to embed the youtube video here but, for those of you who don't like to click links, Jaime Foxx said at this years BET Awards "I'd like give honor to God, Our Lord and Savior Barak Obama..." This may have been a joke but it wasn't very funny! I think it was not only sick but reflective of blind loyalty of some of his supporters.

This was more than just un-cool to me.

[RoyGBiv]

This is the full YT link..You can't use the ".be" link to embed here. : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dZAKWPx604" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Put it between this "tag" [youtube][/youtube] and .... get ready for the magic.... delete the "www." and only the "www.".. and voila.

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=4dZAKWPx604[/youtube]

[jayinsat]

thanks Roygbiv

[carlson1]

I am sure there were people who had the same sentiments about Hitler.

[knotquiteawake]

Like... people get that he's being facetious? Right? Playing on the fact that so many are obsessed with BO? And are expecting BO to pull them out of poverty? He is not making a literal comparison but an inappropriate tongue in cheek comment mocking those who think BO will save them from everything.

I've seen tons of conservative/christian people going nuts over this. I don't get it. Comedians say considerably worse things that would offend the religious all that time.

[Abraham]

...and for a different opinion: I find Jamie Foxx's statement vaguely racist.

[Heartland Patriot]

There was a rock song in the late 1980's by a band called "Living Colour", a black rock band. Their hit song was called "Cult of Personality". Even if you don't like rock music, I recommend you look up the lyrics to the song and read them (not sure if we are allowed to copy and paste song lyrics here). It came to mind within seconds of seeing that about Jamie Foxx' comment.

[RoyGBiv]

Like... people get that he's being facetious? Right? Playing on the fact that so many are obsessed with BO? And are expecting BO to pull them out of poverty? He is not making a literal comparison but an inappropriate tongue in cheek comment mocking those who think BO will save them from everything.

I don't really give a hoot about the words that come out of entertainers mouths.. but.. I definitely came away with a very different impression. I thought he was purposely going overboard and being inappropriately "funny", but I in no way thought he was mocking anyone. Maybe there's the full clip somewhere that would give me a different read than this short piece with tinfoil hat commentary. Double fail, IMHO shrug:

[mamabearCali]

I think he might have been trying to be funny. Major fail. Not even in the neighborhood of funny. After what happened to king Agrippa, IMO, best not to even joke about such thing. What it will get him is on my list of actors I don't/can't watch any more.

[apostate]

Does anyone have a link to the comment in context, without all the histrionics?

[mr surveyor]

just more of the same current trend "entertainment trash"...and I don't even have a clue who this clown is (and don't care to)

[jayinsat]

When I googled the video for the original post, that video was the shortest, best audio quality that I could find at the time. Others were much longer with more commentary or poor audio.

[The Annoyed Man]

Like... people get that he's being facetious? Right? Playing on the fact that so many are obsessed with BO? And are expecting BO to pull them out of poverty? He is not making a literal comparison but an inappropriate tongue in cheek comment mocking those who think BO will save them from everything.

I've seen tons of conservative/christian people going nuts over this. I don't get it. Comedians say considerably worse things that would offend the religious all that time.

I'm a conservative Christian, and I'm not going nuts over this, but I definitely did not take away that he was being tongue in cheek. What I took away was that he was not calling Obama his Lord and Savior (initial caps) on a religious/spiritual level, but that he definitely was calling Obama his lord and savior (lower case) on a political level. I think that he definitely believes that Obama is going to solve all the nation's problems if stupid white people would just get out his way and let him.

By the way, this is entirely consistent with some of Jamie Foxx's previous political pronouncements. He is most definitely sold out to the big-government tax-and-spend paradigm, and so his statement in this video is merely another of his uninformed and incorrect pronouncements, born out of a sense of entitlement.........particularly for people of color.

By the way, I am actually deeply offended by BET. We all know what kind of outcry would ensue if someone were benighted enough to found WET. The fact is that I am a customer of some "black" entertainment. For instance, I am particularly a fan of Tyler Perry....even though I don't share either his political views or some of his scriptural interpretations. But I do believe that his shows promote family, the benefits of a two parent household, and Christianity—even if his theologically based interpretations of government's role in our lives is more liberal than my own. And as far as acting ability goes, I actually think Jamie Foxx is brilliant. His portrayal of Ray Charles was truly great, all the way down to the bone. So called "Black Entertainment" has made DEEP inroads into the culture at large, and those inroads are bought and paid for by pure talent. Not ALL of them are talented. Certainly black entertainment has contributed to the degradation of the culture as much as any other ethnic group's contributions. Blacks do not own all of the blame for that degradation, any more than whites own it, or hispanics own it, or any other singled-out group owns it. To quote the Apostle Paul, "All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God."

The problem with BET is that it has gone the way of the NAACP. Whatever role BET played early on in the promotion of black entertainers has been outlived by its role as a force for division and racial separatism. Black entertainers no longer need BET in order to flourish in the entertainment market at large, in the same way that black citizens no longer need the NAACP to participate and flourish in political or social life. Both the BET and NAACP have morphed into organizations that promote separatism. That is probably unintentional, at least on a superficial level, but that is the end result of both organizations' continuing to act in ways that try to justify their own existences. They are like 17th century doctors......at first they bled the patient to make him better, and then when their bleeding the patient made him worse, they bled him some more to make him better.

They are vampires, and Jamie Foxx is merely their faithful servant.

[jayinsat]

Like... people get that he's being facetious? Right? Playing on the fact that so many are obsessed with BO? And are expecting BO to pull them out of poverty? He is not making a literal comparison but an inappropriate tongue in cheek comment mocking those who think BO will save them from everything.

I've seen tons of conservative/christian people going nuts over this. I don't get it. Comedians say considerably worse things that would offend the religious all that time.

I'm a conservative Christian, and I'm not going nuts over this, but I definitely did not take away that he was being tongue in cheek. What I took away was that he was not calling Obama his Lord and Savior (initial caps) on a religious/spiritual level, but that he definitely was calling Obama his lord and savior (lower case) on a political level. I think that he definitely believes that Obama is going to solve all the nation's problems if stupid white people would just get out his way and let him.

By the way, this is entirely consistent with some of Jamie Foxx's previous political pronouncements. He is most definitely sold out to the big-government tax-and-spend paradigm, and so his statement in this video is merely another of his uninformed and incorrect pronouncements, born out of a sense of entitlement.........particularly for people of color.

By the way, I am actually deeply offended by BET. We all know what kind of outcry would ensue if someone were benighted enough to found WET. The fact is that I am a customer of some "black" entertainment. For instance, I am particularly a fan of Tyler Perry....even though I don't share either his political views or some of his scriptural interpretations. But I do believe that his shows promote family, the benefits of a two parent household, and Christianity—even if his theologically based interpretations of government's role in our lives is more liberal than my own. And as far as acting ability goes, I actually think Jamie Foxx is brilliant. His portrayal of Ray Charles was truly great, all the way down to the bone. So called "Black Entertainment" has made DEEP inroads into the culture at large, and those inroads are bought and paid for by pure talent. Not ALL of them are talented. Certainly black entertainment has contributed to the degradation of the culture as much as any other ethnic group's contributions. Blacks do not own all of the blame for that degradation, any more than whites own it, or hispanics own it, or any other singled-out group owns it. To quote the Apostle Paul, "All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God."

The problem with BET is that it has gone the way of the NAACP. Whatever role BET played early on in the promotion of black entertainers has been outlived by its role as a force for division and racial separatism. Black entertainers no longer need BET in order to flourish in the entertainment market at large, in the same way that black citizens no longer need the NAACP to participate and flourish in political or social life. Both the BET and NAACP have morphed into organizations that promote separatism. That is probably unintentional, at least on a superficial level, but that is the end result of both organizations' continuing to act in ways that try to justify their own existences. They are like 17th century doctors......at first they bled the patient to make him better, and then when their bleeding the patient made him worse, they bled him some more to make him better.

They are vampires, and Jamie Foxx is merely their faithful servant.

TAM, once again you are right on point!

I don't watch BET either. Don't even have it in my lineup. If it weren't for fb, I wouldn't have heard about this. I am Black and am deeply offended by the sexual exploitation and mysogeny of that network. It's networks like BET and groups like the NAACP and CBC that keep the self destructive group think "the man is holding us down" alive and well in the black community, which serves to do nothing but create dependent, lazy and unmotivated individuals waiting on God and/or Govt to supply their needs.

[The Annoyed Man]

....It's networks like BET and groups like the NAACP and CBC that keep the self destructive group think "the man is holding us down" alive and well in the black community, which serves to do nothing but create dependent, lazy and unmotivated individuals waiting on God and/or Govt to supply their needs.

And let's not forget that a huge chunk of those Obama voters were white too, and that the single largest ethnic group on welfare in this country is white people. So that culture of "dependent, lazy and unmotivated individuals waiting on God and/or Govt to supply their needs (brilliant statement, by the way)" transcends race at this point.......which highlights the systemic nature of this social illness.

I don't believe that the statement "God helps those that help themselves" is entirely biblical, but I do believe that God can't steer a ship that isn't underway. If someone isn't trying to better themselves, or trying to take advantage of opportunity when it shows up, then they certainly aren't going to be improved in life by government largess, and Obama isn't going to be able to save them from themselves.